[jdom-interest] What does the encoding really mean?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:36 AM -0500 11/28/01, Fred Clewis wrote:
>Alex,
>
>When I try to use the XMLOutPutter to output UCS-2 or UCS2 (my guess at the
>       java name) I get an unsupported encoding error.
>Am I doing something wrong in the code below?  I have to use beta 7 in my
>       situation.  thanks,
>

That may mean your VM does not recognize the UCS2 or UCS-2 encoding 
names. Try UTF-16 instead (which is what you should really be using 
anyway.)

>SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>// can't use setfeature with JDOM b7
>//builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/allow-java-encodings",
>true);
>builder.setValidation(false);
>thisDocument = builder.build(new FileInputStream(xmlFile));
>....
>ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>XMLOutputter xmlOut = new XMLOutputter();
>xmlOut.setEncoding("UCS-2"); // also fails UCS2
>xmlOut.output(thisDocument, baos);
>return baos.toString();
>
>java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: UCS-2
>         at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:96)
>         at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:44)
>         at java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:49)
>         at
>java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException.<init>(UnsupportedEncodingExcept
>ion.java:39)
>         at sun.io.Converters.getConverterClass(Converters.java:97)
>         at sun.io.Converters.newConverter(Converters.java:128)
>         at
>sun.io.CharToByteConverter.getConverter(CharToByteConverter.java:71)
>         at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.<init>(OutputStreamWriter.java:80)
>         at org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter.makeWriter(XMLOutputter.java:451)
>         at org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter.makeWriter(XMLOutputter.java:437)
>         at org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter.output(XMLOutputter.java:469)
>
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